Welcome to Indigenous in Music with Larry K. On this show we welcome from the Osage Nation, Marx Cassity is in the house. Singer, Songwriter and performer, their new album is out, entitled “2 Sacred.” A nice mix of “Acoustic Soul Rock.” Read all about them at https://marxcassity.com.

Enjoy music from Marx Cassity, Brianna Lea Pruett, Natalia Clavier, Aysanabee, Raye Zaragoza, Ryan LittleEagle, Tom Frear Caleigh Cardinal, Sebastian Gaskin, PaulStar, Mike Bern, The Jerry Cans, The Johnnys, Stevie Salas, The Bloodshots, Jota Quest, Q052, David Strickland, Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Jalmy, Rhonda Head, Kwiat, Shon Denay, Big Skoon, Chantil Dukart, Jamie Coon, Mamarudegyal MTHC, B-Side Players, Shauit, Sly Mestokosho, Blackbird, Garret T. Willie, Ed Koban, 1915 and much much more.

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NEW ALBUM – 2SACRED

HOW LONG

CONTACT INFORMATION

EMAIL: [email protected]
WEBSITE: https://marxcassity.com
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/marxcassitymusic/
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/osagemarx/
BANDCAMP: https://marxcassity.bandcamp.com/album/2sacred-marx-cassity
SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/marx-cassity/sets/2sacred-full-album-marx-cassity2023
YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/@marxcassity
BOOKING: [email protected]

BIOGRAPHY

Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer artist Marx Cassity (Osage/Kaw) delivers inspired synth-driven electronic rock songs with Native nuances, that speak to overcoming hardship through resilience, in connection to nature, humor, love, compassion, spirituality, and heritage.  Guided by spirit, ancestors, and on a mission to help people embrace their identity, Cassity is constantly exploring and evolving as an artist and a person. Called “a songwriter to be reckoned with” by No Depression, they’ve recently added an X to their given name Marca, in honor of gender diversity which has existed throughout all of history.

Cassity is an enrolled citizen of the Osage Nation, with Kaw, Saponi, Susquehannock, as well as French, Scottish-Irish, Irish, English, and German heritage. They are named for their Osage Congressman grandfather Mark Freeman, Jr. and grew up on the Osage reservation on the land of their great-grandmother, original allottee Grace Lessert Freeman who taught them a love of playing piano. Drawn to the instrument from a very young age, they ended up studying classical piano all the way to college, playing french horn in their high school band, while surviving closeted queerness in the bible belt in the era of the AIDS Crisis by spinning vinyl records of artists such as Queen, Pat Benatar, Eurythmics, David Bowie, and Prince.

Happily labeled a tomboy in the 1970s, Cassity ran around barefoot in the dirt, recording the sounds of thunder on a cassette tape recorder.  However, coming out as queer in the late 1980s didn’t go as well, leading them to drop out of music school to become a nurse in the AIDS crisis, and ultimately a trauma therapist specializing in Native and 2SLGBTQ+ resilience. 

During the pandemic lockdown, Cassity was working as a trauma therapist for Native American and LGBTQ+ clients when they read that 33% of Native American LGBTQ+ youth attempted suicide in 2020. While initially stunned by that number, it ended up serving as inspiration for their forthcoming album 2Sacred. Having been one of those youth, Marx wanted to share their story to help people feel less alone and more confident in authentically expressing who they are. “After hearing that disturbing statistic, my mission for creating this project was born: If I can make art that even one queer or trans person hears, or sees, and they stay alive and love themselves and their identity more because of it, mission accomplished.”

The result is Cassity’s fourth studio album, 2Sacred a collection of 10 songs. The album was funded by two Native American non-profits , the NDN Collective Radical Imagination grant, as well as the Osage Nation Foundation artist grant. The album explores themes of what it means to be Two-Spirit – a LGBTQ+ person with Native American heritage – and one who has learned to love and accept themselves and pursue art as an act of devotion and decolonization. For this highly vulnerable material Marx Cassity was grateful and proud to work with Wolf Carr for vocal production at The Hallowed Halls Studio alongside engineer Justin Phelps who created an environment of safety and groundedness, both as solid allies to a Native American/ Indigiqueer artist.

Welcome to Indigenous in Music with Larry K, this week we welcome back from Toronto, Ontario, Veronica Johnny is in the house.  Songwriter, performer and the lead singer in her band “The Johnnys.” They have just released a new remix of tunes from their classic album “Leathers and Feathers,” Bringing us some High Energy Indigenous Rock n roll featuring Stevie Salas and Kevin Gutierrez.

Enjoy music from The Johnnys, Stevie Salas, Kevin Gutierrez, Midnight Sparrows, Levi Platero, Indigenous, Sebastian Gaskin, Old Soul Rebel, Ozomatli, Joey Nowyuk, Joyslam, Banda Black Rio, Jalmy, Joey Stylez, Melody McArthur, Phyllis Sinclair, Rhonda Head, Injunuity, Robert Mirabal, Indian City, La Ley, Leonard Sumner, Hataalii, Janet Panic, Mamarudegyal, Stolen Identity, Blackbird, The Bloodshots and much more.

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LEATHERS AND FEATHERS
STEVIE SALAS AND KEVIN GUTIERREZ REMIX

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THE JOHNNYS

THE JOHNNYS – LEATHERS AND FEATHERS

CONTACT INFORMATION

EMAIL: [email protected]
WEBSITE: https://www.thejohnnys.com
YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/@thejohnnysrock
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/thejohnnysofficial
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/quentincondo052/
SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/thejohnnys/im-electric-the-johnnys
BANDCAMP: https://thejohnnysrock.bandcamp.com/track/motorcycle-mama
BOOKING: [email protected]

VERONICA AND DAVE JOHNNY

ABOUT THE JOHNNYS

The Johnnys are an Ontario-based duo that deliver three-minute original songs of jet-fuelled
rock’n’roll, with cheeky lyrics and anthemic choruses! The duo performs with a full band.
Veronica’s culture and heritage is reflected in Indigenous influences on topics of the
environment, social justice, and political change. Veronica is a proud member of the Athabasca
Chipewyan First Nation.

Dave and Veronica Johnny (The Johnnys) have been crossing cultural boundaries by blending
traditional Indigenous values and language with high voltage chords and thumping melodies.
Their four independently released albums were all nominated for national music awards. Their
all-Cree single, Nisakihtan Kiya Kisoskatowin (I love your heat) was on the Indigenous Music
Countdown for 11 weeks and reached the Top 10.

Released in December 2023, The Johnnys’ 5th album – Leathers and Feathers (Salas/Gutierrez
Remixes) – was produced by world-renowned guitarist Stevie Salas (with engineer Kevin
Gutierrez). The EP features original cover art by Dave, who creates images under the name
Part Raven.

The album showcases a climate emergency song called Frog in a Pot (Salas/Gutierrez Remix)
which is reflective of the forest fire evacuations of Veronica’s home communities in the NWT &
northern Alberta, this last summer. “It’s getting hot!” The song also reached Top 10 in Canada
and streaming on The IndigiVerse and Sirius XM! @thejohnnysofficial

Welcome to Indigenous in Music with Larry K, this week we welcome back from Mi’kmaq Nation, Quebec. Q052 is in the house. He’s been staying busy, he has 3 albums out, “ImagiNation,” the “Calm” and “The Storm.” Indigenous Rock Hip Hop at it’s best.

Enjoy music from Q052, David Strickland, JB the First Lady, Ana Tijoux, Carsen Gray, Samantha Crain, Rhonda Head, Aysanabee, Ray Zaragoza, Garret T. Willie, Indian City, Gina Loring, Beny Esguerra, VILDA, Soleil Launiere, Graeme Jonez, The Johnnys, Stevie Salas, Kevin Gutierrez, Melody McArthur, Marx Cassity, Tracy Bone, Mitchell Mikoons, Trent Agecoutay, Twin Flames, Centavrvs, Nancy Sanchez, Locos Por Juana, XAXO, B-Side Players, Dan L’initie, Def-i, Marie Font, Artson, Quese IMC, Supaman,Prolific The Rapper and much much more.

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Q052

Q052 – SON OF A GUN

CONTACT INFORMATION

EMAIL: [email protected]
YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@q-0522
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Q.052.REZ/
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/quentincondo052/
SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/q052
BANDCAMP: https://q052.bandcamp.com/album/the-storm
BOOKING: [email protected]

Q052

ABOUT Q052

Quentin Condo aka Q052, is a Mi’kmaq Hip Hop Artist from the Community of Gesgapegiag, in the Gaspésie. His lyrics constantly challenge the Canadian Government about the Indian Act, territorial destruction from resource exploitation, the hidden agenda surrounding the Truth & Reconciliation process and the many levels of the Canadian Genocide. A strong advocate for Indigenous youth and women fighting alongside his brothers and sisters, he hopes that his truthful music will inspire systemic change.

Welcome to Indigenous in Music with Larry K, this week we welcome Karlos Paez, founding member of the B Side Players. Next year they will celebrating 30 years of bringing us the best latin soul music from Chula Vista, California. They have been putting out the singles. Visit them on their music page www.thebsideplayers.com

Enjoy music from B Side Player, Locos Por Juana, Digging Roots, Julian Taylor Band, Angel Baribeau, Melody McArthur, Leonard Sumner, Shauit, Garrett T. Willie, The Johnnys, Stevie Salas, The City Lines, Lacey Hill, Ozomatli, Shawn Michael Perry, Logan Staats, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Michael Bucher, MATCITIM, Aysanabee, Ray Zaragoza, Janet Panic, Mamarudegyal MTHC, Marx Casstity, Sarazino, Amparo Sanchez, Gary Small & the Coyote Bros’ and much more.

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“EL QUINTO ELEMENTO” BY B SIDE PLAYERS

CONTACT INFORMATION

EMAIL: [email protected]
PHONE: 619-454-6491
WEBSITE: www.thebsideplayers.com
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/TheBSidePlayers?mibextid=LQQJ4d
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/bsideplayers/
BANDCAMP: https://bsideplayers.bandcamp.com/
YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/@BSIDEPLAYERSTV?si=5Wmkhdr3MSk5pnkX
BOOKING: [email protected], [email protected]

B SIDE PLAYERS BIOGRAPHY

The B-Side Players are a 9-piece band part of a new movement in popular music. A band that honors the international cross-pollination that has always made music the universal language. They use any beat that catches their ear, regardless of geography or genre, to create a compelling, horn driven, polyrhythmic groove.

Welcome to Indigenous in Music with Larry K.  On this show we welcome Montreal, Canada we welcome Soleil Launiere into our spotlight, singer, songwriter, and performer.  Her new album is out, fresh of the press, entitled “Taueu.” A nice soothing mix of Indigenous fusion pop tunes. 

Enjoy Music from Soleil Launiere, Robbie Robertson, Red Road Ensemble, Angel Baribeau, Rose Moore, Dustin Harder, Prarie Soul, Mitchell Makoons Sarazino, Novalima Santana Latin Vibe Indigenous in Music Interview Soleil Launiere Kelly Frasier Captain Planet Leanne Goose Laura Niquay Indigenous in Music Nancy Sanchez, Olmeca Jasmine Netsena Shawn Michael Perry Corey Medina Garret T. Willie Qacung, Airjazz MIOS Latin Vibe Concorde a Orange ABZ Motivation, Shantel Norman Stolen Identity Shylay Ray Sunshine and much much more.

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NEW ALBUM – TAUEU

MUN D-LGUIDER, TARWA N-TINIRI & NUKAD

CONTACT INFORMATION

EMAIL: [email protected]m
WEBSITE: www.soleil-launiere.com
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/soleillaunieremusic
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/soleil_launiere/?hl=fr-ca
BANDCAMP: https://soleil-launiere.bandcamp.com/album/taueu
YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/channel/UCMdblfnsWcpD9AGK92f9zGg
TICTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@soleil.lunaire
BOOKING: [email protected]

BIOGRAPHY

Originally from Mashteuiatsh on the shores of Lake Pekuakami, Soleil Launière lives and
works in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). A multi-disciplinary artist combining song, movement and
theater with performance art, she interweaves the presence of the two-spirited body with
experimental audiovisuals, drawing inspiration from the cosmogony and sacred spirit of
the animals of the Innu world. Last June, she unveiled her first single Au bout, an
intimate contemporary indie work in which she and the group CHANCES (Geneviève

Toupin (Willows), Chloé Lacasse and Vincent Carré) explore a universe of rhythms and
vocal harmonies with a gentle poetry that speaks of the passage of time, identity and the
spirit of nature. In August, she unveiled Mun d-Iguider, which means “follow the eagle” in
amazigh, a worldbeat work composed in Morocco’s Merzouga desert, with the
magnificent desert blues of Amazigh band Tarwa N-Tiniri and the magical voice of
Moroccan-Amazigh singer Nukad. Then in September, she unveils Piekuakami, the third
and final single before the release of her album. Piekuakami is a soul-roots song in
which Soleil expresses her love for the land where she grew up, with an enveloping and
touching gentleness. On October 13, the multidisciplinary artist unveils Taueu, her long-
awaited debut album. Exploring themes of territory, femininity, gender identity and
matriarchy, Taueu is a soul-roots album imbued with pop tones and magnetic
arrangements that draw us into a mysterious universe and a soothing space.
Accompanied by Joséphine Bacon, who taught her Innu-aimun, her songs blend French,
English, Innu-aimun and a language invented by Soleil in a process of reappropriating
cultural identity and language.

Welcome to Indigenous in Music with Larry K. On This show we welcome from Kingcome Inlet, British Columbia, Garret T. Willie. Singer, Songwriter, he has just released his debut album entitled “Same Pain,” new Indigenous rock, from north of the border.

Music from Garret T. Willie, Technicolor Fabrics, Murray Porter, Tito & Tarantula, Crystal Shawanda, Soda Stereo, Hataalii, QVLN, Adrian Sutherland, One Way Sky, Jota Quest, Morgen Toney, Arvel Bird, Annie Humphrey, Rhonda Head, Carsen Gray, Marx Cassity, Burnstick, B Side Players, Los Moonlights, Link Wray, The Deeds, Graeme Jonez, Romeo Void and much much more.

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GARRET T. WILLIE LIVE AT NANAIMO BLUES FESTIVAL

CONTACT INFORMATION

EMAIL: [email protected]
WEBSITE: https://garrettwillie.com/
FACEBOOK: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100039731750668
INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/garrettwilliemusic
BANDCAMP: https://garrettwillie.bandcamp.com/album/same-pain
YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/@garrettwillie
TICTOK: tiktok.com/@garrettwilliemusic
BOOKING: Jose Marianne Proulx – j[email protected]
MERCHANDISE: https://cutloosemerch.ca/collections/garret-t-willie

MERCHANDISE

BIOGRAPHY

Garret T. Willie is an old soul masquerading as an uncommonly wise, weathered, witty and world-weary 23-year-old. He’s about to give rock ‘n’ roll a formidable 21st -century kick in the ass with plenty of wild, heartbreaking, and hilarious stories to share in true rock ‘n’ roll form.

Garret T. Willie hails from Kingcome Inlet, off the coast of British Columbia. He’s been through some serious shit and lived through a lot more than most of us have at his age. But while Willie’s back story also gives him more right than most to sing the blues – and at heart, Garret T. Willie is a rock ‘n’ roller – he’d rather that not be the whole story.

Willie is the personification of an open book in the lyric sheet to his upcoming debut record Same Pain. Through his songs, there’s a helluva lot of raunchy fun going on above and beyond the occasional exorcism of tragedy and trauma. To listen to Same Pain is to get to know him more than you might be aware, but also to find a friendly, sensitive voice with a gift for transmitting universal emotions. Willie gets himself, and in doing so kinda gets all of us. He also knows what makes the blues tick. And, man, can he rip it up on the guitar.

He’s studiously schooled in all the right source material, from Howlin’ Wolf, Albert King and Muddy Waters to Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis to The Rolling Stones, Ten Years After, AC/DC, Stevie Ray Vaughan, George Thorogood and everyone else who’s carried the torch into the present, with a little Johnny Cash and Hank Williams thrown in for some outlaw-country flavour on the side. He knows the music – all of it, top to bottom – knows its history, knows its lineage, knows its hottest licks. He’s been studying every inch of that history and that lineage ever since he started teaching himself Angus Young solos as a 7-year-old from the sticks looking to escape, picking up on the common, primal essence behind all the music he loves and channels today. And that’s why, on Same Pain, Garret T. Willie can not only really rip it up on the guitar, but also with the gut-busting honesty of someone who understands that if you ain’t lived it, you shouldn’t sing it. At least that’s the way it is for him.

Garret T. Willie is not interested in replicating anyone else’s music. He’s interested in making music that’s entirely his own. And with the aid of producer/co-writer/right-hand man Parker Bossley (formerly of Gay Nineties and the late, great Hot Hot Heat) he’s taken steps to doing just that on Same Pain, an impressively three-dimensional first foot forward that proves Willie as confident and comfortable doing a kickass bar-room blaster like opener “Make You Mine Tonight” as he is doing a wistful, slide-streaked ballad like “What It Means To Me.” He makes you chuckle on the goofy morning-after lark “Rolled” or while singing an ode to his favourite footwear on “Black Shiny Shoes,” then proceeds to rip your heart right out on the emotionally shambled, Sticky Fingers-esque album teardown before opening the tune up into an almost exultantly cathartic coda. Dude’s the real deal.

Garret T. Willie has absolutely no interest in emulating the musical past, emulating his heroes. His interest is only in channeling every ounce of the classic blues and rock ‘n’ roll he venerates so deeply into something new. Bringing it into the now, hustling it towards the future and maybe leaving his signature on the wall for a few of the bored kids to follow in his footsteps.

“I will bring my culture in once as an example,” says Willie. “I used to carve when I was younger. I’m from Alert Bay, which is ’Namgis First Nation and I’m also from Kingcome Inlet and I’m also a little bit Tlingit, from up in Alaska. So I have the rights to carve those styles because I’m from there. But what I don’t have the rights to do is carve West Coast style – Nuu-cha-nuulth – because I’m not from there. I don’t have the rights to do that. And that’s how I look at music. I really admire Muddy Waters’s ‘Got My Mojo Working’ but I don’t have the rights to do that shit. I wasn’t brought up in Chicago and I’m not from there, y’know? If I was to do it, it would be in clichéd form and it would be disrespectful